Ah , Boston . What a gem of a city . A gem made of lobster , dipped in cheap beer , rolled around in soot , and covered in baked dome . If you ca n’t gather that someone ’s from here with their accent ( fame or not ) , it ’s that irreverent behavior that ’ll tumble you off . There ’s really no position on earth like this small-scale Massachusetts urban center – one steeped in account , brotherhood , and the leftover of a hideous molasses flood . If you dwell here , prospect are you ’ve experienced some “ Boston ” moments that ’ll only be understand by other resident physician , things that plausibly wo n’t come about anywhere else . These thing .
1.Participating in a city - wide riot after your squad wins or loses .
2.Meeting a miserable motion picture scholar who goes to Suffolk because Emerson turned him down .
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3.Watching aWest Side Story - style gang fight between MassArt kids and Wentworth guys in Mission Hill .
4.That interior difference of opinion when you require a tattoo but that punk place in The Garage quotes you way too much money .
5.Going to a really stinking company in Allston and being charged at the doorway .
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6.Participating inAllston Christmasand then getting bedbugs .
7.Throwing up in the privy of Anna ’s Taqueria .
8.Killing time at Newbury Comics while wait for dinner at Charlie ’s .
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9.Taking your out - of - townsfolk relative to Mike ’s Pastry .
10.Tactfully avoiding the Spare Change Guy while walk in Downtown Crossing .
11.Making fun of the duck sauceboat losers who beat back by on Park St.
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12.Waiting in argument at the Regina ’s in North End before yield up and going to the one in South Station .
13.Getting coffee tree from Honey Dew Donuts because the occupation at Dunkin ' is too long .
14.Coming upon a execution fit and then finding out it ’s just a flick shoot with Emerson shaver .
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15.Having to leave the good political party ever because theT is about to shut down .
16.Building a tiffin out of free samples at Faneuil Hall .
17.Going to Dick ’s Last Resort and laughing on the outside while shout on the inside .
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18.The words “ wicked ” or “ pissah ” being used unironically .
19.Running into your ex at every single prevention you go to because this goddamn city is so pocket-size .
20.Heavily critiquingThe DepartedandThe Townbefore realizing they ’re glorious flick that do n’t merit critiquing .
21.Having to explain to outsiders that Cheers is a ginmill , but nobody bed your name .
22.Finding a cause to curse out the irritating kids from [ INSERT NAME OF UNIVERSITY HERE ] .
23.Realizing you have to avoid all coffeehouse Monday - Friday duringeveryschool semester .
24.Walking around Faneuil Hall with your parent for the four-hundredth time .
25.Attempting to get anywhere alfresco of business district on the MBTA , but realizing it would be quicker to walk the 300ft - recollective city .
26.Talking to someone who is n’t in college and realizing it ’s the first real conversation you ’ve had in months .
27.Seeing Dropkick Murphys for the tenth time in a week . Just around the metropolis … not even at a show .
28.Being declare oneself a free “ cup o ’ chowdah ” by every restaurant , hotel , bar , and bookstore if you could recount one fact about the Red Sox .
29.Going to Fenway on a weekend Nox and seeing a fight break out because someone said a Scripture that sounds like “ Yankee ” ( e.g. hankey , lanky , panky ) .
30.Attempting to cut through the city in a car , only to realise you turned down the wrong Tremont or Boylston and now you ’re in Dorchester .
31.Feeling a strange ease in the conspicuous racialism that permeates the city . At least you know who to annul . Everyone .
32.Hanging out with your 39 - year - onetime townie roommate in Brighton who ’s in a " promising " ring . ( It ’s a Dropkick Murphys cover lot . )
33.Getting weird backhand compliments like “ You count less queer today ” or “ My dopehead cousin has that jacket , it ’s mischievous sweet . ”
34.Hearing “ Sweet Caroline ” being yelled off in the distance by two different group of people on a Saturday night .
35.Going to Southie and recognize the Boston accent is actually played down in moving picture about Boston .
36.Accidentally mistreat on a hypodermic acerate leaf in Southie ( true story ) . Seriously , heroin ’s a huge problem in Massachusetts .
37.Someone ’s wear out all green and is address in Oxalis acetosella and it ’s not St. Paddy ’s Day .
38.Scanning the saloon for attractive womanhood and realize it would be better to go home alone .
39.Defending your flat in Mission Hill by telling hoi polloi the expanse ’s not as " stabby " as it used to be .
40.Feeling like you ’ve moved up in the world because you have a new place four blocks away from where you dwell in college .
41.Understanding “ getting out of city ” stand for going to the Target in Somerville .
42.Reminding masses that Cambridge is n’t part of Boston .
43.Pretending to conceive it when your towny friend blab about moving to New York .
44.When you ca n’t tell if the guy you ’re babble out to at the bar is Irish or intoxicated . Or both .
45.Forgetting your ID at Blanchards , because that place cards every single meter .
46.Peeing under a Charles River bridgework .
47.Finagling a sexy sleepover by “ circumstantially escape the last railroad train . ”
48.When you buss that statue at Harvard before remembering you ’re supposed to urinate on it .
49.Ending up at the Silhouette Lounge because Deep Ellum was too crowded .
50.When you step on a lowlife right before you walk into a pigeon .
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Jeremy Glassis a writer for Thrillist and actually really loves The Silhouette Lounge .
